St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-08
him? Can come back to the Jail at all

"COme and See." was all the Jaller re-
piled, and turned away. Capt. Black
saws that the finding of the bombs in
Lingg's cell will in no sense change his
plans. He and Mr.. Solomon will go
straight ahead with their petition, and
ask clemency for Lingg as well as the
rest, starting tomorrow, as already ar
ranged. The sheriff is my authority for
saying that the contents of the bombs
were dynamite. They were opened by
Capt. Setback, who took out small
portion of the contents, which he eX-
plOded and found to be most powerful.
Inspector Bonfield, of the police, is in
tensely disgusted with the state of af-
fairs, and especially, in his own words,
''at the cowardice of men who, although
prominent, have no strength of mind
and knock each other down in an effort
to get to the front to sign petitions
through fear that their property will be
lost to them in case of hanging. I do
not" said he, ''believe that the finding
of the bombs will produce revolution
in the breasts of sympathetic petition
ers. 1t will only cause them to sign the
petitions faster. l tell you when you
get people scared you can expect them
to do anything. A great many believe
the police placed the bombs in Lingg's
cell, and this belief will make them sign
the petitions faster. By God, L don't
believe one of them will be hung, and
all will go down to the penitentiary.
1t Is Shame
that when such men are found guilty
there should be so many towards to
pray for communication of their SEN
tence." The inspector was very angry,
and hard light shone from his eyes as
he spoke, and emphasized his utterances
with his clenched fist. "If these men
go to the penitentiary, what then?' was
asked.
''What then?" he repeated, "What
then? will tell you. In year from
now the feeling in favor of the ansrch-
lists will resolve itself into a political
issue. Judge Tuley will be put forward
for governor by the anarchists friends,
and the doors of the penitentiary will
be opened and the men will walk out
free"
1t would be a mistake Intentionally to
misunderstood or miSrepresent these
men. They are of different grades of
brain, birth and culture. There are no
extenuating circumstances in Spies
favor, nor are there in the cases of
Lingg, Fischer and Engel. They were
all stepped in the malignant, bloody
and desperate conspiracy against the
life of social authority and its repre-
sentatives. There were all the
essentials of murder in their
hearts and conduct. malicious intent
and forethought, deliberate and homi-
cidal. As regards the cases of Parsons
and Fielden, these men counseled muir
der with their lips, but it is doubtful if
in their hearts they fully appreciated
into what a murderous whirlpool they
were rushing. Both of them were gifted
with glib tongues, but with an equal
lack of knowledge and reasoning capac-
ity. Both could talk eloquently, fer
vently and fanatically upon a subject
of which they had the shallowest con-
ception, and intoxicated by the applause
that greeted their fanaticism, redOubled
their fury and ferocity. The sound of
their own voices was to them
The Sweetest Music
in the world, and the wild cheers of
their hearers was the next. As one set of
fierce invectives grew stale or fell fiat
they were forced to invent others more
vituperative and incendiary. Thus
they worked themselves up from the
denunciations of fancied wrongs to the
open advocacy of dynamite and bombs.
Parsons undertook to overturn society
because, among his fellow labOrers, so
ciety would not tolerate what it regarded
as matrimonial crime. His wife, full
of bitter, vengeful feelings, egged him
on to the most violent attacks on the
social fabric, and where he faltered
took up the theme with ferocitY rival
ing that of the notorious Louise Michel.
Fielden, by his industrious, sober life
and labOr-hardened hands, has shown
that anarchy and murder were
the intoXicants rather than the actual
prOpensities of his nature. They af-
fOrded scope for his native eloquence,
and, being unballasted, he embraced
the opportunity to talk until he raved
and uttered the widest appeal for
bloOdshed in his delirium. OF Schwab
it may be said that he is poor devil,
made an anarchist by the circumstance
of working for an anarchist. He did
what Spies directed, about as he would
have served an honest master, had fate
thrown him into such service. In the
eye of justice he is equally guilty of
murder with his leader, but mercy
might commute his sentence without
straining reason and public safety.
The Times to-day, following the wake
of these dispatches. put the matter very
clearly as follows: "Unless appear
ances are very deceptive, some citizens
have been intimidated already by these
criminal menaces to make slaughter of
our public agents. The appearance of
their names or remOnstrances directed
TO the executive against the execution
of the judgment of three courts and
100000 of American people indicates
that the threat of foreign criminals to
repeat the horrible butchery of the
on wider scale if justice
be not defeated with respect to the |
seven condemned malefactors, has not |
been without some intimidating effect. |
What Further Effect
it may have we shall see. The policy of |
the Haymarket malefactorS and their
friends is not to sue for mercy. 1t is to |
demand liberty and to extort executive |
clemency by threats of bloody and ter
rible vengeance if the judgment of the
law be executed. They brazenly deny
that those heroes the manifestation of |
whose heroism was the horrible |
slaughter of policemen, or 'bloodhounds
of the law in the language of foreign |
crime, have committed any criminal |
offenSe. They set I'D this impudent as i